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Please, let's keep our records straight, and taint not my name. John Sack, author of Report from Practically Nowhere and my son, is 28 as of now, not 30 as you said [March 16]. I was married 30 years ago this month. What will my friends say? TRACY L. SACK...
REPORT FROM PRACTICALLY NOWHERE (252 pp.)-John Sack-Harper...
...countries have been thoroughly pawed over by tourists and travel writers. Searching for a virgin field, Author-Traveler John Sack turned to 13 of the smallest and least important nations, seminations and oddball principalities he could find, from seagirt Lundy (pop. 21), ten miles off the coast of an indifferent England, to the Middle Eastern principality of Swat (pop. 518,600), whose wily Wali encourages the tourist trade, according to Sack, by personally inspecting the toilet drains in his nation's only hotel...
Generally, Author Sack found the rulers he encountered friendly in inverse proportion to the size of their domains. But not always; the Sovereign Military Order of Malta rules over an area in Rome that is half as large as a football field and has a total population of two. One of them, the reigning Lieutenant Grand Master, was far too busy to see Sack. In Monaco, Sack missed Prince Rainier, but everywhere else he hobnobbed with the princes, seneschals, presidents, captains regent, sheiks, nawabs, rahs and dewans of postage-stamp domains from Sark in the English Channel to Sikkim...
...journeyings Author Sack, 30, visited the Middle European principality of Liechtenstein, where he was the near-victim of an explosion in a salami-skin factory; learned in Sharja on the Arabian peninsula that the selling price of a slave girl is $270; gambled for low stakes with Cadillac-driving smugglers in Andorra, the tiny domain perched in the Pyrenees, between France and Spain. An ex-reporter for U.P. and a magazine writer, Sack employs a racily frenetic style, e.g., using "chugalug" as a verb meaning to drink and "crackajack" as an adjective meaning excellent, and is often as determinedly elfin...